AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, May 3, 2009 00:21:11

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday April 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Aspects of Differential Geometry, I
Room 325, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
David Bao, San Francisco State University bao@math.sfsu.edu
Lei Ni, University of California San Diego lni.math.ucsd@gmail.com
- 8:00 a.m.
  Weighted Poincare inequality and Ricci curvature lower bound.
  Jiaping Wang*, School of mathematics; University of Minnesota
  Peter Li, University of Califronia, Irvine
  (1049-58-30)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Geometric applications of monotone entropy quantities for parabolic PDE.
  Brett L Kotschwar*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1049-53-65)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Exceptional compact simply connected spaces with positive pinching.
  Nolan R Wallach*, University of California, San Diego
  (1049-53-60)

Saturday April 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Aspects of Differential Geometry, II
Room 325, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
David Bao, San Francisco State University bao@math.sfsu.edu
Lei Ni, University of California San Diego lni.math.ucsd@gmail.com
- 3:00 p.m.
  The geometry of static and stationary spacetimes.
  Richard Schoen*, Stanford University
  (1049-53-54)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Soliton equations and Gauss-Codazzi equations.
  Chuu-Lian Terng*, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Irvine
  (1049-53-72)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Operator calculus and New geometric methods in analysis and topology.
  Jenny Harrison*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1049-53-58)

Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Aspects of Differential Geometry, III
Room 325, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
David Bao, San Francisco State University bao@math.sfsu.edu
Lei Ni, University of California San Diego lni.math.ucsd@gmail.com
- 8:00 a.m.
  The Structure of Complete Manifolds with Positive Spectrum.
  Ovidiu Munteanu*, Columbia University, New York
  (1049-53-40)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Geometric Meanings of Curvatures in Finsler Geometry.
  Zhongmin Shen*, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
  (1049-53-69)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Mean curvature flows of Lagrangian graphs and isotopy problems.
  Mu-Tao Wang*, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
  (1049-53-56)

Sunday April 26, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-
Special Session on Aspects of Differential Geometry, IV
Room 325, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
David Bao, San Francisco State University bao@math.sfsu.edu
Lei Ni, University of California San Diego lni.math.ucsd@gmail.com

Inquiries: meet@ams.org